The Politics And Economics Of NRC In India

The National Register of Citizens or NRC is currently one of the hottest political issues and a subject of debate in India. It is quite a complicated thing and also has a profound implication. The topic of NRC involves both politics and economics in it. However, there is an array of confusion over NRC and its aftereffect subsequent to its implementation. So what is actually NRC, and why there is chaos related to its implementation?

The National Register of Citizens (NRC) is a method of registering all genuine Indian citizens. It is an act that was first prepared in the year 1951. This act of 1951 is being updated first in the state of Assam that has a longstanding foreigner issue, to remove illegal immigrants and to stop the further flow of them. The updation process of NRC began in the year 2013 under the strict monitoring and supervision of the Supreme Court of India. On December 31, 2017, a section of the NRC list was released, and then on July 30, the release of the complete draft was done.

According to this draft, there is some eligibility criterion to get registered in the NRC list. It includes:
• Individuals whose names appear in NRC list of 1951
• People whose name appears on the electoral rolls up to March 24, 1971
• Descendants of the people above
• Migrants who came from other regions on or after January 1, 1966, but before March 25, 1971, and has registered themselves with Foreigners Registration Regional Officer (FRRO) and were declared citizens of Indian by the Foreigner Tribunal
• All citizens of India including their relatives who moved to the state of Assam after March 24, 1971 (they need to show proof of residence of their another part of the country as on March 21, 1971)
• D voters can apply to get their names included in the updated NRC list
• People who can provide any one document issued till midnight of March 24, 1971, which is cited in document list admissible for citizenship

The main idea behind implementing the NRC is to flush out the illegal migrants that have come and settled here from Bangladesh and other parts of Southeast Asia. In the recent NRC updation done in the state of Assam, a total of 31.1 people were included, and 1.9 million people were excluded from the list according to the statement of the Assam government. But the NRC implementation has got its place in the whirlpool of controversy and political ire as well. Most of the parties in opposition are opposing the NRC and accusing the government of implementing NRC with vested political interest. Human rights groups and certain northeastern community groups are also opposing the implementation of NRC in Assam and other northeastern states of India. The main accusations that are hurled at the government are that via NRC, and it is trying to single out population belonging to a specific religion and benefiting its own political interest. They are also demanding clarity on the bill that the government has brought in the Parliament regarding NRC and the way it will be implemented.

The government, on the other hand, explains NRC as a way out to identify the illegal immigration problem in India and also an efficient way to stop it. By NRC, the government will be able to take out the chunk illegal people staying in the country. The illegal migrants were adding an explosive number to the population of the country and also additional pressure on the already stressed infrastructure and economy of the country. Besides, the illegal migrants can be a threat to national security, and hence the process of NRC has become an important step to undertake. The NRC bill looks into the safe house for prosecuted refugees in the neighboring countries of India from where the immigrants actually belong so that the deportation process can be done smoothly.
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